Scientist Technical Support

Abbott Laboratories invites you to join the Core Lab Diagnostics team in Lake Forest, IL. This onsite Scientist Technical Support role offers a competitive salary range of $68,000–$136,000 per year, with meaningful opportunities for career development and a culture that emphasizes quality, collaboration, and delivering reliable solutions for customers.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities
• Health coverage under a HIP PPO medical plan
• Retirement savings with substantial employer contributions
• Tuition reimbursement and education benefits (Freedom 2 Save, FreeU)
• Fortune recognition as a great place to work in dozens of countries
• Recognition as a best big company for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

The Opportunity

The Scientist Technical Support role is based onsite at the Lake Forest, IL facility (Conway Park) within Abbott's Core Lab Diagnostics Business Unit. The position supports design control, process and product improvements, investigations, and cross-functional collaboration with external suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Proactively contribute to design control, process or product improvement activities and investigations; perform or support test and method modifications; recognize adverse trends and emerging issues, and propose or implement solutions.
• Project management: independently lead product and process improvements using established principles and procedures.
• Monitor performance of multiple manufacturing processes and products with recurring themes; identify adverse trends and drive improvement programs as needed.
• Design control and risk management: independently develop and maintain risk management files and organize data for evaluation and decisions.
• Complaint and internal investigations: manage investigations, identify root causes, and drive to resolution with minimal supervision.
• Provide audit inputs and support as required.
• Technical support: develop and design experiments, analyze data, and recommend next steps.
• Sharing knowledge: present technical information to management and may present externally to customers and Third-Party Manufacturers (TPMs); share expertise with others in the work group.
• Strategic and results-oriented: demonstrate fiscal responsibility through supporting product availability and improvements; propose and implement solutions to internal and external issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific or technical field is preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Two years (or more) of related work experience; advanced degrees may offset the required years of experience.

The Opportunity Details

The Scientist Technical Support role operates onsite in Lake Forest, IL (Conway Park) within the Core Lab Diagnostics Business Unit.